one report suggests the african-american community provided more than $16,000 of the $17,000 price tag up the statue. once the money had been raised the managers of the memorial fund called the western sanitary commission commissioned thomas bell, an american living in italy to create something worthy of lincoln and the people that had donated their hard-earned money. he crafted a statue depicting him with of the emancipation proclamation in his right hand and with his left hand extended over a kneeling sleeve rising from the earth shackles broken. next to link him contains george washington relief. around the monuments base is the word emancipation and in the front is the following inscription. freedom memorial in grateful memory of abraham lincoln this monument was erected by the sanitary commission of st. louis missouri with funds contributed a solely by the man's painted citizens of the united states decay declared a free jindal reversed, 1863. the contribution of $5 was made by charlotte space a freedwoman of virginia. being her first earnings and free from and consecrated by her

, an african american woman would protect her man's manhood. there's this interracial romance that happens, black man, white woman, and how this is all viewed. she said how she felt her character had to really stand up to protect her man and as a consequence it became part of the play. the african american woman will not tell earl that his wife has actually left him already and run off with another man. she doesn't tell him that because she's trying to protect his manhood. those are things i think if you are a smart playwright, you really take advantage of your very smart actors and your very smart directors. again, this thing where it's always coming down it ego. at sundance, in every rehearsal process, i like being part of a very generous workshop. if you were in there you would say, wow, it's pretty free-wheeling. for example, you have 9 characters, 9 story lines that all are trying to be pieced together so they all are introduced, they all intertwine and at the end they are all resolved in some form or fashion. it's a delicate architecture.

african-american models changed the game. they used music, dance, effervescence to create something the french had not seen before. it was the birthplace of american fashion on that day. tavis: talk about what they were trying to restore and why they thought fashion was the answer? >> is needed about $60 million. and a publicist by the name of eleanor lambert reached out to the curator in france and said, why don't we do a fundraiser? she represented all of the americans that were on the stage in paris. tavis: no agenda, just a good idea. >> they can put on a runway fashion show on the stage and it was very smart. it was an agenda because part of her job, she was hired by the department of commerce during the course of her years as a publicist. she uses the opportunity to showcase american designers, the only african american designer. tavis: how did what started out as a philanthropic gesture become a fashion smack down? what was the genesis of the competition? >> the fund-raiser started very easily. and buy tickets and come

the african-american art and culture complex, this is african-american month 360. 3 61 on leap year because every single day we need to remember the struggles. we need to remember the good times and the bad times so that we are pushing forward and not pushing backwards. so that we are moving our community together as a whole, forward, and making sure that the mistakes of the past that this city has made does not continue to impact the african-american community, which includes the rapid decline. with myself and supervisor cohen have been working extremely hard on this board and we are going to be looking to members of the african-american community to help us continue to find creative options so that we can begin to repopulate this city with the african-american community that is so deserved. thank you so much. (applause) >> supervisor breed, you sound like the good reverend dr. breed. we were about to have church in here, folk. i hope you're ready. i want to start with district 1, supervisor 1 districtv, supervisor eric mar. >> thank you. colleagues, black history is so important t

metz was the second, think about this, second african-american female physician to be hired by kaiser northern california. and because of that, she has helped pave the way for many others to come after her. and i realize that even when she retired, she kept on going and going and going and getting involved with many, many different organizations to promote health and so forth. and, for instance, dr. metz was -- has worked closely with her church, pares to provide child training, [speaker not understood] to the congregation. and she goes on. she worked with students throughout san francisco reaching out in particular to schools that have heavy population of african-american students to promote health and welfare to these students. and basically she is a person that will always continue to serve not only the african-american community, but all people of diverse cultures and so forth throughout san francisco. this is dr. metz. (applause) >> i'd like to thank you, supervisor yee, and the members of the board of supervisors. thank you for this special award. i'm very honored and i accept w

while african-americans make up 6% of san francisco's population they accounted for 54% of drug sales and arrests and 40% of drug sales arrests in the city. that is african-americans were 18 times more likely to be arrested for dealing drugs and 10 times more likely to be arrested for possession of drugs than the city's other races combined. this large disparity is not explained by racial differences in drug use as estimated by drug deaths, so from 1995 to 2009, 62% of drug deaths were white non latinos and 22 were african-american and 10% latinos and asian islander so that disparity is unique to san francisco. our study showed prior to the 990's san francisco drug enforcement resembled state wide. after 1995 san francisco's rate of felony arrest of african-americans increased dramatically and not occur elsewhere in the state and for other racial categories in san francisco. in 2009 data shows that african-americans in san francisco experienced felony drug arrests seven times higher than the rest of california. these trends are apparent in other areas but to varying degrees. we were u

i'm al williams, president of the board of directors of san francisco african-american historical andultural society. on behalf of the society and our co-presenters, the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce, the bayview ymca, senator mark leno's office, the san francisco public library, and the mayor's office of neighborhood services, welcome to the 2013 black history month program. the 2013 black history month theme is "at the crossroads of freedom and equality, the emancipation proclamation and the march on washington." the society is the lineal descendant of the san francisco atheneum. it has been the only san francisco institution that is dedicated to documenting, preservinging and presenting true accounts of the history of people of african descent in san francisco. the society is a membership-based organization. without the hard work of our members and friends, the society wouldn't be able to present programs like today's kickoff. i'd like to take a moment here to thank members of our board of directors and the black history month committee who are here. amongst th

i want this award to represent the pride that i have in being an openly gay african-american man. (applause) >> i also need this award to serve as a bridge unites the two when issues arise that want to pivot against each other. when i look at this award on my wall, i want it to remind me that i followed my heart and i made the right choices and that when someone tells me that i'm doing god's work, that i won't assume they must be doing the devil's work, but they are just innocently extending a high compliment of great praise. i think we can all agree that wanting to be a powerful force for positive change is not relegated to a certain work force sector or job title or a set of responsibilities. it just takes someone with a little interest, courage, and concern for your fellow man. so, i accept this honor on behalf of the community of service providers, many represented here in this chamber, business professionals, public servants who commit themselves to making our community and this world a better place in which to live. not just for ourselves, but for those we'll never meet. it

women -- you head the preeminent african american national organization, do african american women feel like they have been fully integrated in to feminism? >> that's a good question. i don't know if i can wrap it up. but there is a separate sort of wave that african american women have embraced called womanism. takes the ideals of feminism but in fuses the issue of race within that. with black women, we are both. we appreciate feminism. we want to recognize that our african american myths as well as femininity. >> very interesting. behind the headlines: kat calvin. the young entrepreneur is encouraging more black women and girls to get involved in tech. as we celebrate black history month we a look at calvin's organization, blerdology, formerly black girls hack. >> we really love the word "blerd" which means black nerd for anyone who doesn't know black nerd is "blerd" and so we're blerdology because we're all about the science of black nerds. >> calvin held the first so-called black girls hackathon last fall to encourage more women to become tech savvy. >> black girls hack kind of star

where do we go from here when we have lost numbers of african americans in san francisco? do we go from here? well, i'll tell you where we go from here. (applause) >> we change policy of the city. we change policy, and we start to be progressive, truly progressive about the policies we push to make african americans feel welcomed in this city. so, where do we go from here? we start to make aggressive efforts to educate our young people. we take ownership of our community. we take ownership of our children. we support each other instead of pointing the finger. where do we go from here? (applause) >> there is much work to do. as supervisor cohen and i cannot do it alone, we need your support. we need your encouragement. so, as we celebrate black history month, we need to reflect and understand and appreciate our history. it is a rich history, one that has made san francisco a great city. it is our time to shape the course of history as we speak by making a change in our great city. so, i'm going to be looking to you all in this audience to be advocates, to be supporters. whe

an african-american has each and that person essentially says in a sense. silence by family members and local clergy bound by fears and denial only strengthened the growing prejudice against those infected with hiv every black family has someone who has been addicted to drugs or alcohol as someone who was gay you know so that wasn't a new phenomenon what was new was that we were not about to talk about it in public i had a minister to said to me it's a real reverend cheek. homosexuality i don't have that problem in my church i said a problem. i said how because the church we think we see twelve hundred people as a so and twelve hundred people and easily to say that ten percent of the population this gay and lesbian and you don't see anybody so you don't have anybody in your choir you don't have anybody on your deacon board on your ministerial staff on you in your administrative office no way you don't see no one gay and as i understand homosexuality and drug addiction are two taboos that were well entrenched within the black family but almost never openly d

orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually this prairie death. among ourselves. both black men down women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv says. i did everything possible to get in this position yeah i want to now that you know the wendy of my life was fast and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken alice and pain she community clone and i think that's why our first i first fell on top when they told me i didn't believe you know because i had all these s.t.d. is like now. if you go away here. you know bad i was my thinking about did it overall way but it didn't go away and stanley's response was good now and then now doesn't need as i don't believe only you know like ok i

but i had teachers, one who was african-american, one who was jewish and one who was lesbian that showed me eyes on the prize, the autobiography of malcolm x that taught me about the black panthers. that is what inspired me to find my voice so i could continue on that struggle as an adult. so in honor of all of that, in honor of black history i'm really excited to bring unone of our long-time activists and residents natania zones. [cheering and applauding] >> and i want to invite your family, i want to invite the family of natania jones to come up, the family, [speaker not understood], walter james, mother jones. i see many of you. -- that are here to honor her today. * i am so lucky to represent this district. we have such an amazing community. and i bring -- i guess i bring legislation to the board, i go to ribbon cutting. but none of that happens if not for the community that does the work, brings the idea, and works on a daily level to improve our neighborhoods in the tenderloin, mission, and south of market. i did lose natania to [speaker not understood]. i want to acknowledge that.

it's also employers who only higher weight or hire african-americans only for the worst paid and most dangerous and worse condition jobs. if the federal government and the state government interfering in the economy and racially discriminatory ways. the image that comes out other cases that takes on african-american workers reveal a jim crow that is much more total, much more about deprivation and exploitation as well as stigma and symbolism and state-mandated thought. >> host: during that period, what with some of the success civil rights section? >> guest: the big success of the civil rights section had to do with agricultural workers in the south actually who are really a lot of the worse off of african-americans in any race or color. a lot of the complaints were from agricultural workers in this house in forms of involuntary servitude. nasa civil rights for help and civil rights section prosecuted individual employers for holding their employees and involuntary servitude. they would not do as agricultural cases to cases of domestic workers such about african-american women and tho

the society has been that institution for african americans. and for other newcomers to san francisco for more than 60 years. the society like many nonprofit institutions is currently experiencing a number of challenges. however, the importance of the work we do, we remain undaunted and we are determined to succeed. we hope that we can count on your support, individual and collective, as we work to transform the challenges we face into future opportunities. again, i wish to thank supervisor chu and all of you for this honor. i'm deeply appreciative of it. thank you very much. (applause) (applause) >> thank you. the next recognition will come from supervisor breed. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. i am so excited to acknowledge and honor today mr. kareem mayfield. come on up. [cheering and applauding] >> as he is known in the community, kareem is part of the north american boxing organization and he is actually ranked number 2 in the entire world. (applause) >> today, i'm not honoring him because he's a boxing champion. i'm honoring him because h

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i think it diminishes him to say he was an african-american civil rights leader. he was that, but he was so much more. he was the person who symbolized one of the great new movements of human history. when i go back and read his speeches, i'm particularly struck by the way in which he linked our struggle to struggles going on around the world. when he spoke, at the end of his life in memphis, and on the last evening of his life he's speaking to sanitation workers. and we have to remember that by calling him a civil rights leader, it doesn't quite encompass why he would be in memphis leading a strike of sanitation workers. but he performed the role that he had performed so often in his life. he inspired the strikers by telling them their labor struggle was connected to the historic labor struggle throughout the world. he said that despite the world being all messed up -- and this is a time of riots in many places -- he drew attention to the positive aspects of what was happening in the world, finding solace in this panoramic view of world history. and he went throu

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and i think that it is absolutely wonderful that our african american president is giving the state of the union address. we are also very, excited that we are celebrating the lunar new year across the district and i would ask everyone to join with me in celebrating these two occasions african american month and chinese lunar new year across the district. i also would like to bring to everyone's attention that this year is also a very important year for us in san francisco unified school district. as our early education department is celebrating its 70th anniversary. and this is incredible on a number of fronts, where we see school districts across the country that are doing away with the early childhood programs in san francisco, we have continued to invest and we see it in early in the childhood program. if you think back we are in the throws of world war ii and parents were off to factories to fight in the war and this community made a commitment to the youngest citizens that they would be safe while everyone threw themselves into the war effort. we have evolved into one of the fine